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Article #2885Re: Set File Name of Open Dialog Box
From: John van de Geyn
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:59
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:59
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I have used Clientsocket and serversockets before to communicate between applications. They are simple to implement. "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message news:45883571$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > "nil" <nilesh.gawali@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:4587e6f1$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > >> My application is opening the Open Dialog Box Of another >> application. Now,How to set file name of this Open Dialog Box, >> Which is a child of another application. > > You cannot set the filename programmably from an external process. To do > so > would require the use of the CDM_SETCONTROLTEXT message, which has a > string > parameter. You cannot pass strings across process boundaries because of > the > use of different address spaces. So you would have to put your code into > a > DLL and then use a hook via SetWindowsHookEx() to inject the DLL into the > target process. Only then will the DLL code run in the context of the > target process instead of your application, so the message can be used. > You > also have the added problem of being ble to find the proper dialog HWND > after it has been opened so that you can send messages to it. That is not > easy to do from an external process, either. > > > Gambit > >
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,2ba2d5dfbe86851c X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "John van de Geyn" <j.vandegeyn@uq.net.au> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <4587e6f1$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <45883571$1@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Set File Name of Open Dialog Box Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:59:31 +1000 Lines: 38 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.136.143.216 Message-ID: <4588fb3a$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1166605114 144.136.143.216 (20 Dec 2006 00:58:34 -0800) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail